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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation there were people who loved each other and people who did not it was a human world.
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So you love me, said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand, said Bean. You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice. That's nice, she said.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
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